Mortality Up for Male Recipients of Blood From Ever-Pregnant

TUESDAY, Oct. 17, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- For males, receipt of a red blood cell transfusion from an ever-pregnant female is associated with increased rate of all-cause mortality compared with a male donor, according to a study published online Oct. 17 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Camila Caram-Deelder, from Sanquin Research in the Netherlands, and colleagues examined the correlation between mortality and exposure to transfusions from ever-pregnant or never-pregnant female donors in a retrospective cohort study involving 31,118 first-time transfusion recipients.